Blog: Homelessness Ends Here 
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05/16/2012 A Site Visit to Skid RowAnne Miskey, executive director of Funders Together, takes readers on a site visit to LA's Skid Row.
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05/08/2012 National Conference Focuses on Employment Solutions to HomelessnessMore than 300 people from 33 states gathered at the National Transitional Jobs Network (NTJN) Conference last month to discuss best practices in employment solutions for individuals facing employment barriers―including those experiencing or at risk for homelessness.
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05/02/2012 Opening Doors to End Homelessness in Connecticut Philanthropy Plays a Key RoleLocal philanthropy is helping to develop and implement a new statewide plan to end homelessness in Connecticut. Early "wins" in the campaign include new public investments in affordable and supportive housing in the state.
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04/24/2012 Good News from Capitol Hill for Federal Homelessness ProgramsThose of us working to prevent and end homelessness were heartened by last week’s announcement that the U.S. Senate is proposing the largest one-year increase to the Department of Housing & Urban Development’s (HUD) McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grants in nearly 20 years.
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04/16/2012 Innovation Thrives in the Non-Profit World A Report on United Way of Metro Atlanta's "Innovations Forum 2012"If we are going to successfully end homelessness and fight poverty, we must come up with ideas to do more with less. To that end, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta recently co-sponsored the “Innovations Forum 2012,” which showcased innovative practices in ending homelessness from around the Southeast region. The forum served as a reminder that innovation is critical.
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04/11/2012 Spring has Sprung at Funders Together An Update on our Activities from Our Board ChairThrough the hard work of our dedicated staff and board, and as a result of expressions of interest and efforts by funders all over the nation, the vision of a vibrant network of philanthropic sector partners that lies at the core of Funders Together’s goals is rapidly being realized.
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04/05/2012 Resource Roundup: Spring 2012 Links to Latest Useful Tools & Resources on HomelessnessOver the last couple of months, an abundance of useful resources exploring supportive services and programs designed to meet the needs of homelessness individuals have become available. These toolkits and briefs cover topics such as connections between Medicaid and permanent supportive housing, recommendations for applying HUD-VASH effectively, and employment models for people experiencing homelessness. Here, we have summarized and provided links to fives resources we consider “recommended reads” for funders.
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03/29/2012 Collaborative Funding: Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is LA Funders Collaborative Announces $42 Million RFP to Address HomelessnessHilton Foundation's Bill Pitkin provides an update on the work of the Los Angeles Funders Collaborative, a regional affiliate of Funders Together, that is helping to align public and private resources toward the goal of ending chronic and veteran homelessness in Los Angeles by 2016.
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03/22/2012 Developing a Shared Agenda around Meeting the Needs of Vulnerable Families Resource Materials from "Silos to Systems" MeetingLast October, a group of 80 invited leaders from philanthropy, government, and the private sector gathered in Seattle to think about ways to fundamentally transform how we work with vulnerable children and their families. The meeting was sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Casey Family Programs, Building Changes, Corporation for Supportive Housing, and National Alliance to End Homelessness, all of whom are Funders Together members or partners. In January, Building Changes released a summary report from the meeting, "Silos to Systems: Solutions for Vulnerable Families."
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03/12/2012 Food for Thought: Adverse Childhood Experiences and Homelessness A Message from our Board ChairIn 2009 and 2010, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded a grant to the Family Policy Council of Washington State whose purpose was to add relevant questions to Washington’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to help identify correlations between adverse childhood experiences and homelessness.
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